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Dr. Shiekhattar was honored today with the prestigious “Pioneer Award” and a five-year $5+ million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant will support Dr. Shiekhattar, Ph.D., professor of human genetics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, in pursuing a novel line of research on “Enhancer RNA Therapy” that could lead to potential treatments for deadly pancreatic cancer, melanomas and other types of diseases (10/05/2017).

Dr. Shiekhattar will talk about Integrator’s roles in the regulation of mRNA transcription termination at the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the 3 activities of eukaryotic RNA polymerase in honor of Drs. Robert Roeder and Pierre Chambon during May 22, 2018 at the Curie Institute in Paris, France

Dr. Shiekhattar will participate as a speaker at the Max Planck Freiburg 5th Epigenetics Meeting December 5-7, 2018, Freiburg, Germany. The Max Planck Freiburg Epigenetics Meeting has been established as a key meeting in modern epigenetics research that allows scientific and personal exchange in a setting of around 150 participants.